Michael Gove has apologised to victims and bereaved families for Government failures during the pandemic. When challenged on “chaos” in the Cabinet Office in early 2020, Mr Gove said: “If I may … apologise to the victims who endured such pain, the families who endured so much loss as a result of the mistakes that were made by Government in response to the pandemic. “As a minister responsible for the Cabinet Office, and was also close to many of the decisions that were made, I must take my share of responsibility for that. “Politicians are human beings. We’re fallible. We make mistakes and we make errors.”